Improvement in prescription-files



A. D; FOSTER.

Prescription Files.

1 No, 138,390, PatentedApril29,1873.

I'Vitnesses Inventor.

AMPHOTO-UTHUGRAFHICLQNXMS'BQRNEE? means.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT D. FOSTER, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRESCRIPTION-FILES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 138,390, dated April29, 1873; application filed March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT D. FOSTER, of Council Bluffs, in the countyof Pottawattomic and in the State of Iowa, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Prescription-File; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompa nyin g drawing and to the letters of referencemarked thereon making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a file for prescriptions, letters, bills, &c., as will be hereinaftermore fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a perspective view, showing my file separated. Fig. 2 showsthe under side of a part of the file; and Fig. 3 shows the filecomplete.

A and B represent two pieces of pasteboard of suitable thickness to havethe required stiffness. These pieces are cut of any desired size, and tothe under side of the piece A, near one end, is secured one end of awire, 0, by means of an eyelet, a. This wire is then passed up through ahole, b, in the center at this end ofthe piece A. The projecting end ofthe wire 0 being pointed, the prescriptions are readily placed on thesame; and when the desired number has accumulated thereon the piece B isplaced on top, there being in the same a hole with an eyelet, cl, forthe passage of the Wire. After this the end of the wire 0 is twisteddown, as shown in Fig.3, and a rubber band, D, placed around the otherend of the file.

This file may be used for letters, bills, and other papers, as well-asfor prescriptions.

I Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The pasteboard piece A, provided with the wire 0 fastened to the same byan eyelet, a, and passing through the hole I), in combination with thepiece B having eyelet-hole d, substantially as and for the purposesherein set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this6th day of March, 1873.

ALBERT D. FOSTER.

Witnesses:

WM. A. MYNsTEE, JANS PETERSEN.

